A world transformed
Subtitle: firsthand accounts of California before the Gold Rush
By: edited with introduction by Joshua Paddison.
Contributors: Paddison, Joshua, 1974-
Publisher: Heyday Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781890771133
Subjects: California -- History -- To 1846 -- Sources; California -- History -- 1846-1850 -- Sources; California -- Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Account of the "sacred expedition," 1769 / Juan Crespí; title: Journal of the first Spanish ship to enter San Francisco Bay, 1775 / Vicente Santa María; title: Account of the founding of Mission Dolores, 1776 / Francisco Palóu; title: from A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, 1792 / George Vancouver; title: The Rezanov voyage, 1806 / Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov and George von Langsdorff; title: from A voyage around the world, 1816 / Adelbert von Chamisso; title: Picturing a world transformed; title: from Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, 1826 / Frederick William Beechey; title: from Two years before the mast, 1835-36 / Richard Henry Dana, Jr.; title: from An overland journey around the world, 1841-42 / Sir George Simpson; title: from What I saw in California, 1846 / Edwin Bryant; title: Reminiscences of early San Francisco, 1847-48 / Edward Kemble.